An FDA official opted to retire after bad advice from an ethics committee forced him to either retire or sell stock and incur a significant tax expense.
Greater than 20% officials in senior positions, at the 50 U.S. Federal Agencies the Journal reviewed, had a conflict of interest in their stock choices.
On November 15, 2021, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation reported a successful test that hit the inactive Russian spacecraft Tselina-D, which had been in orbit since 1982. The Ministry of Defence further states that “The United States knows for a fact that the fragments produced during the tests did not and will not pose a threat to orbital stations, spacecraft and space activities in terms of test time and orbital parameters.”